Do you have certain things you decided so strongly so long ago that you don’t even quite remember why? Early in my life, I wiped watches from my life. I remember being a little girl and loving a necklace watch. But whenever I wore any watch, I somehow lost it. Ultimately, timepieces and I abandoned each other. I became the teen and then grown-up who refused to wear watches.
Read MoreYou may know that electric feeling....you have an amazing new idea, it bubbles in your brain and heart. It settles in, you decide to write it down. You clutch your coffee or your wine or vitamin water and circle your writing desk.
Read MoreIt could be the beginning of a time-travel Thanksgiving tale: Connectedness = Karmic Gratitude. Miracle in the City of Angels. And yet, it really happened, once upon this time.
Read MoreNo doubt about it, these are scary times. It’s everywhere. Read it online and on people’s stressed faces. See it in empty storefronts, lighter daytime street commuter traffic, thinner mail (businesses don’t have money to market themselves; it’s great not to have all the junk mail but still…).
Read MoreWhen I first knew Benazir Bhutto, it was not as the larger than life ‘Antigone’ tragic figure she became but rather as a fellow undergraduate at Harvard College. Benazir, known by family and then friends as ‘Pinky’ because of her pink complexion, lived in a connecting dorm to mine at the Radcliffe Quad.
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